2 hours ago Biden demands constitutional amendment on presidential immunity in final warning before Trump takes power

Trump’s administration is expected to be full of lawyers who fought to expand the scope of presidential power

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17 hours ago US inflation ticks up in December and remains above Fed’s 2% target rate

Consumer price index rose at annual rate of 2.9% and while Trump promised to cut prices he now says it will be hardInflation ticked up across the US last month, according to the last report on consumer prices under the Biden administration.Donald Trump has promised to bring prices down for millions of Americans. But while price rises have slowed sharply since their post-pandemic peak of 9.1%, the pace of inflation remains higher than the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2% per annum. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Biden bids farewell with dark warning for America – the oligarchs are coming | David Smith

The president did not air grievances or dwell on the past, but sounded an alarm call about the future under TrumpThere was a sting in the tail. Joe Biden’s farewell address had not seemed like a must-watch for most politics-weary Americans. Those who did dutifully tune in might have been expecting the president to deliver a yawn-inducing first draft of his White House memoir.But after more than half a century in elected office, the 82-year-old great-grandfather had one last surprise. The primetime speech did not mention Donald Trump by name. Instead it will be remembered for its dark, ominous warning about something wider and deeper of which Trump is a symptom. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Biden, 82, issues ominous warnings about Trump and Elon Musk in farewell speech after 50 years in politics

President Joe Biden used the farewell speech of his 50-year-political career to issue ominous warnings about his successor Donald Trump and the wealthy allies in his inner circle.

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4 hours ago Biden warns of dangerous threat of new age of ‘robber barons’ in farewell presidential address

Biden attacks ‘tech industrial complex’ as he closes a half-century in public life with Oval Office speech

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4 hours ago Biden farewell speech live updates: Biden calls for Constitutional amendment ending presidential immunity

President Joe Biden warned ‘oligarchy is taking shape in America’ during his final address from the Oval Office

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5 hours ago Joe Biden warns ‘oligarchy is taking shape in America’ in farewell address

President sounds alarm about growing power of ultra-wealthy before handing presidency back to TrumpJoe Biden’s final address to the nation struck an ominous tone after warning of the growing power of America’s ultra-wealthy, and cautioning that an emerging oligarchy threatens the foundations of US democracy.The Wednesday prime-time Oval Office speech came as Biden prepares to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump, who he defeated in 2020 only to see return to power after Biden’s own dramatic exit from politics last summer. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago New Jersey wants to defend Biden rule letting Dreamers use Obamacare since Trump can’t be ‘counted on’

Estimates suggest 100,000 immigrants could enroll in Obamacare under rule at issue in case

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5 hours ago Biden farewell speech live updates: President warns ‘oligarchy is taking shape in America’

President Joe Biden warned ‘oligarchy is taking shape in America’ during his final address from the Oval Office

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6 hours ago STEPHEN POLLARD: This ceasefire deal isn't the final hurrah for Biden... it's the first victory for Trump

The majority have been killed in captivity, and the deal between Israel and Hamas does not mean the immediate release of all those who are still alive.

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5 hours ago Biden warns of dangerous threat of new age of ‘robber barons’ in final presidential address

Biden warns of ‘tech industrial complex’ danger to democracy as he closes a half-century in public life with Oval Office address

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5 hours ago Biden warns of dangerous threat of new age of ‘robber barons’ in farewell address

President urges Americans to stay engaged for battle for the future

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7 hours ago Biden farewell speech live updates: What time and how to watch the president’s final address from Oval Office

President-elect’s picks for attorney general and secretary of state, Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio, among those who faced questions from senators on Wednesday

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7 hours ago Democrats and Republicans spar over whether Biden or Trump deserves credit for the ceasefire

Analysis: Whose ceasefire is it anyway?

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8 hours ago Biden leaves office with higher approval rating than Trump after first term, new poll shows

Outgoing president’s final approval rating stands at 36 percent, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS

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8 hours ago Joe Biden pens 'farewell letter' to all Americans and takes brutal swipe at Donald Trump

President Joe Biden's final words to Americans included a reminder about the 'attack on democracy' sparked by fanatical Donald Trump supporters before Mr Biden took office in 2021

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10 hours ago Trump credited for ceasefire breakthrough as US officials who resigned over Gaza war slam Biden’s inaction

Officials said breakthrough came when Trump applied pressure on Israeli government, something Biden was unwilling to do

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11 hours ago Biden says Israel, Hamas have reached ceasefire deal after ‘intensive diplomacy’

The deal was reached after negotiations involving representatives of both the Biden and incoming Trump administrations

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12 hours ago Pam Bondi claims justice department ‘targeted’ Trump but says she won’t pursue ‘political’ prosecutions – US politics live

Bondi facing senators as Kristi Noem, Marco Rubio and CIA pick John Ratcliffe also face confirmation hearingsTrump’s attorney general faces scrutiny at Senate hearingWho is Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick to lead the US justice department?Under questioning from Democratic ranking member Dick Durbin, attorney general nominee Pam Bondi dodged when asked if she believed Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election in 2020.“To my knowledge, Donald Trump has never acknowledged the legal results of the 2020 election. Are you prepared to say today, under oath, without reservation, that Donald Trump lost the presidential contest to Joe Biden in 2020?” Durbin asked.All I can tell you, as a prosecutor, is from my first-hand experience, and I accept the results. I accept, of course, that Joe Biden is president of the United States. But what I can tell you is what I saw first-hand when I went to Pennsylvania as an advocate for the campaign. I was an advocate for the campaign, and I was on the ground in Pe...

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12 hours ago Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules | Mohamad Bazzi

The Biden administration has repeatedly undermined international institutions and law to shield Israel. This will come back to haunt them Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Biden administration withdraws rules to save endangered whales from collisions

The federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale

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15 hours ago Joe Biden says ‘soul of America’ still at stake in farewell letter as president

President implicitly acknowledges that country’s divisions remain unbridged as Trump poised to return to Oval OfficeUS politics live – latest updatesJoe Biden has said the “soul of America” is still at stake in a valedictory message implicitly admitting that the national divisions that spurred him to run for the White House remain unbridged at end of his four-year presidency.The acknowledgment came in a farewell letter issued ahead of a televised speech from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening, when he will deliver his final address as president before being replaced by Donald Trump next week. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago FDA floats plan to make cigarettes nonaddictive, but its fate rests with Trump

The Biden administration is floating a long-awaited proposal to make cigarettes less addictive by capping their nicotine levels

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17 hours ago Joe Biden bids farewell to Oval Office days before Donald Trump becomes president

Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office for a final time on Wednesday

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23 hours ago Biden's 'sneaky' and 'dirty' plot to slow down Trump on Day One... despite promising a 'smooth' transition

President Joe Biden enacted a series of roadblocks to Donald Trump's agenda to slow down the president-elect in his first days in the White House, despite his public promise to cooperate.

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24 hours ago Families of Americans held by Taliban plead with Biden to ‘do the right thing’

Taliban say it is negotiating with US to swap three Americans for a former aide to Osama bin Laden

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